- As per the confusing words of the Holy Father (National Catholic Register, 10/21/2020): “Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it....What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered....I stood up for that.”
- As per the even more confusing "explanation" by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (10/22/2020): "the references involved civil unions. The Holy Father has consistently affirmed the sacrament of marriage as a union between one man and one woman on many occasions just as he has affirmed the need to treat all people with respect and dignity. The recent comments underscore the Holy Father’s previous calls for pastoral and cultural sensitivity to the many different journeys of those who walk through life around us."
- With all due respect, this Holy Father and Archbishop Perez seem to be theologically illinformed. As authored by Francis' immediate predecessor and approved by St Pope John Paul II in 2003: "The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The Church cannot fail to defend these values, for the good of men and women and for the good of society itself.
- As per the Catechism's proclamation of the Church's unchanging and untiring teaching:
- Back in 1930, Pope Pius XI ( 1930) could probably not have even envisioned the assaults on marriage that were to come or the "Clericalism" that would fail to appreciate and defend marriage/family
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- Pledge to Make Reparation for Louisiana Church Sacrilege (Return to Order, 10/13/2020)
- Reproductive Freedom Act is Raw Abuse of Power that Oppresses the Will of NJ Voters (New Jersey Right to Life, 10/2/2020)
- Cardinals and Political Leaders Address Conference, Highlighting ‘Forgotten’ Persecuted Christians (National Catholic Register, 9/24/2020